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Gaetano Filangieri Between Public Happiness and Institutional Economics Munich Personal RePEc Archive Contemporary of every age: Gaetano Filangieri between public happiness and institutional economics Balzano, Maria Silvia and Vecchione, Gaetano and Zamagni, Vera University of Naples Federico II, University of Naples Federico II, University of Bologna 10 January 2018 Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/84538/ MPRA Paper No. 84538, posted 13 Feb 2018 18:03 UTC Contemporary of every age: Gaetano Filangieri between public happiness and institutional economics1 Maria Silvia Balzano Gaetano Vecchione Vera Zamagni University of Naples Federico II University of Naples Federico II University of Bologna [As long as] the evils which afflict humanity are not yetremoved; errors, and prejudices which perpetuate errors, have their advocates and partizans; and truth is known but to a few privileged individuals, and is still kept at an awful distance from the thrones of kings, it is the duty of the scholar and the sage to endeavour to eradicate the former, and to proclaim, support and illustrate the latter. If the lights they scatter are not useful in their own times, and their own country, they may enjoy the certainty of having served other countries and succeeding generations. Citizens of the world, they are contemporaries of every age, the universe is their fatherland, the earth is their school, and posterity will be their disciples. Gaetano Filangeri, The Science of Legislation [Translation by Richard Clayton, 1806] Abstract In the decades around the turn of the eighteenth century, Naples was capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and Europe’s third most populous city. From the early decades of the eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, the city spawned a school of intellectuals that, though predominantly juridical in cast, nevertheless displayed a surprisingly substantial openness to a new approach to the social sciences, which had developed above all in France, heavily influenced by the natural sciences and the experimental method. In harmony with Enlightenment thought, Gaetano Filangieri was the precursor, two centuries back, of the principles of indissoluble interaction between formal and informal institutions and economic development, between governance and social feedback, that are pillars of today’s school of institutional economics. His writings anticipated, in a number of respects, conceptual approaches adopted by later scholars. The present paper offers an institutional focus on his work, referring above all to Douglass North and his treatment of the role of the Glorious Revolution. 1 This paper is a thoroughly revised and extended version of Balzano and Vecchione (2015), Gaetano Filangieri e l’istituzionalismo economico, Rivista economica del Mezzogiorno, 29 (3-4), 583-612, Il Mulino, Bologna. We decided to extend and translate the original version because we believe that the work by Filangieri deserves an international visibility in the academic community. 1 1. Gaetano Filangieri: Life and historical context Gaetano Filangieri was a leading exponent of the Neapolitan Enlightenment, well known abroad and engaged in an epistolary relationship with Benjamin Franklin during the years of the American Declaration of Independence. His writings anticipated, in a number of respects, conceptual approaches adopted by later scholars.1 The present paper offers an institutional focus on his work, referring above all to Douglass North and his treatment of the role of the Glorious Revolution. After a brief biography in section one, his intellectual profile is traced in section two. Section three sets out the main aspects of his work, and section four connects his thought with the school of institutional economics. Section five recounts the events that led to the rise and fall of the Parthenopean Republic in 1799, and section six concludes. The third of eleven children of an ancient, noble house of Norman origin, Gaetano Filangieri (born Cercola, 1753, died Vico Equense, 1788), though he was given the traditional strict military education of the younger sons of the nobility, turned at a very young age to the study of law, philosophy and politics. In 1774, at just 22 years of age, he published his reflections on questions of domestic politics. His intelligent exposition won approval and agreement on many fronts, in Italy and abroad (Ferrone, 2003). The widespread praise for Filangieri drew the attention of the Bourbon court, and in 1777 he was named Majordomo of the Week and Gentleman of the Chamber, as well as Officer of the Royal Corps of “naval volunteers” at the service of King Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, the son of Charles III of Spain (Filangieri, 2003). During the formative years for Filangieri’s thought, the monarchies and principalities of Europe had to confront the ideas of liberalism and democracy espoused by the thinkers of the day, who were not dissuaded by the barriers of censorship, as Filangieri himself recalled: “ the obstacle now surmounted is by no means inconsiderable. We have assumed the right of thinking and writing with a freedom that does equal honor to the Princes who permit, and to the subjects who use their permission with propriety and advantage” (Filangieri, 2003, p. 3) [Translation by W. Kendall, 1791]. From Sweden to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, from the Russia of Catherine the Great to the Austria of Maria Theresa of Habsburg, everywhere it was plain to see that the various sovereigns were seeking to digest the intellectual elaborations of English writers like Locke, Hume and Blackstone, which had fertilized the minds of such French philosophes as Montesquieu, Rousseau and Diderot, spreading then through the most of Europe. Subsequently labelled as enlightened despots, some of these sovereigns of the late eighteenth century were distinguished by their reformist ideas; their abandonment of the dogmas of crown and church and their advocacy of the principles of ratio drew them away from the anachronistic heritage of the Middle Ages. On such auspices of a renovation of 2 governments, Filangieri undertook his monumental Science of Legislation, in which the ideas of the enlightenment thinkers of Europe, but, above all, of thinkers close to his own life, like Giambattista Vico and Bernardo Tanucci,2 merged with his concrete experience of the Bourbon court. Filangieri’s entry into the royal entourage took him to the center of the artificial world of the courtesan, in close contact with the great corruption revolving around the Bourbon crown. The lack of a stable bourgeois class in mid-18th-century Naples (Cuoco, 1980), the survival of a feudalism that had already been abandoned in the northern part of Italy (V. Zamagni, 2017) and the feelings of mistrust and extraneousness with respect to public institutions (Macry, 2012) rendered the distance between the aristocracy and the average citizen, between the noble palaces and the misery of many city streets, palpable. All this, together with the evident conditions of degradation observable both in and outside the kingdom’s capital city, further underpinned the critical approach of his intellectual mission. The initial sections of the Science came out in 1780 (Filangieri, 2003). Unfortunately, Filangieri’s dedication to an ideal born in his youth and maintained with constancy soon had to reckon with health problems that worsened steadily with the passage of time. His marriage in 1783 with Countess Caroline Fremdel of Pressburg, who was in Naples in the entourage of Queen Maria Carolina of Austria, allowed him to move to the relative quiet of Cava dei Tirreni and rest from courtly society. During his absence from the Bourbon court, Filangieri unflaggingly composed new parts of his work, completing the third and fourth books, but without renouncing the company of friends and admirers; he made Cava the destination of an intellectual pilgrimage (D’Alessandro, 1994). Unfortunately, his courtly commitments tore him away from the solitude of Cava and brought him back into the royal entourage in 1787, to take part in the Supreme Council of Finance. He was therefore obliged to move back to the palace of his older brother Cesare in the heart of Naples. Unhappily, his failing health could not withstand the pace of his heavy courtly work load. So he decided to ask for a royal permit of leave in 1788 to go to Vico Equense, in the castle of his sister Teresa, a healthier environment. However, his health did not benefit as hoped from rest and the clean air of the peninsula of Sorrento, and on 21 July 1788, a few months after his arrival, he died in that castle at the age of just 35. 2. Gaetano Filangieri: civil enlightenment thinker In the decades around the turn of the eighteenth century, Naples was capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and Europe’s third most populous city, behind London and Paris (Malanima, 2006). From the early decades of the eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, the city spawned a school of intellectuals that, though predominantly juridical in cast, nevertheless displayed a 3 surprisingly substantial openness to a new approach to the social sciences, which had developed above all in France, heavily influenced by the natural sciences and the experimental method. The leading jurists thus began to grapple with political science, commerce, and the economy, at the same time as Adam Smith was drafting and publishing The Wealth of Nations, which laid the groundwork of modern economics (Amatucci, 2010). Antonio Genovesi, Gaetano Filangieri, Giacinto Dragonetti, and Ferdinando Galiani were some of the scholars who made eighteenth- century Naples a lively workshop of ideas, markedly liberal and egalitarian; together with their colleagues of the Milanese enlightenment, they founded the school of “civil economy.” This paradigm of economic thought fell into protracted oblivion, mostly because it was foreign to the Anglo-American mainstream of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Bruni and Zamagni, 2013). Among the major works of this period, certainly one of the most outstanding is Filangieri’s Science of Legislation, written between 1780 and 1788.
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